Game of Thrones season 8 teaser reveals start date of final series

Season 7 saw many of the main characters in Game of Thrones come together for the first time

It's the news many of you have been waiting for. The premiere date for season eight of Game of Thrones has been revelead.

But we hate to break it to you that there's still a couple of months to wait.

The final series of the epic fantasy drama series will air on April 14, broadcaster HBO has confirmed.

UK fans will have to wait until 2am the following day however when the episodes air on Sky Atlantic.

The news was revealed in a teaser trailer on the official HBO Twitter account in the early hours of January 14 with simply a count down as the caption.

It's 90 days if you were wondering.

Fans will be treated to six episode of the hit adaptation of the novels of George RR Martin and the series will also air on Now TV.

It has been nearly two years since we last visited Westeros, so where did we leave it?

Jaime Lannister had nearly drowned while Daenerys' dragons were setting everything before them ablaze and elsewhere, Petyr Baelish, or Littlefinger to most, finally met his maker at the hands of Arya and Sansa Stark after constantly trying to play the sisters against each other.

The final sequence of the season saw The White Walkers finally breaking through the Wall at Eastwatch.

And even more terrifying was the sight of the recently deceased Viserion now reanimated as an ice dragon who breathes bright blue ice fire.

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Game of Thrones cast members, including Kit Harington, Emilia Clarke, Sophie Turner, Maisie Williams and Lena Headey will all reprise their roles when the main players fight for survival one last time.

A new trailer showed Harington, Turner and Williams walking down a dark corridor.

Harington's character Jon Snow is seemingly coming to terms with his true parentage, as a member of the Stark family, alongside Turner and Williams' characters Sansa and Arya Stark.